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Article: Crowd management: Matthew Arnold and the science of society.(Critical Essay)
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- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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Through the length and breadth of our nation a sense,-vague and obscure as yet,-of weariness with the old organisations ... works and grows. In the House of Commons the old organisations must inevitably be most enduring and strongest, the transformation must inevitably be longest in showing itself; and it may truly be averred, therefore, that at the present juncture the centre of movement is not in the House of Commons. It is in the fermenting mind of the nation; and his is for the next twenty years the real influence who can address himself to this.
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (1866-69)
The destinies of nations are elaborated at present in the ...